Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 750： 250th Anniversary Of The Battle Of Lexington And Concord

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00:00:48.120 okay friday 18 april year of our lord uh 2025 uh good friday also the eve of the 250th

00:00:58.520 uh commemoration anniversary of uh lexington and concord and of course tonight late tonight the

00:01:05.420 midnight ride of uh of paul revere who's joined us as joins us on many of these occasions is a great

00:01:11.580 combat historian patrick k o'donnell first patrick uh welcome back uh long time no see uh loving

00:01:20.060 audience loves love audience loves to have you on um first of all i just want to even start off

00:01:28.020 where do where do people go and get all your writings because every time we we have you on

00:01:32.600 people go and they always come back to me and say we'd love patrick's books he's got such a breadth

00:01:38.320 of you know world war ii korea the iraq war uh all the way back to the revolution you kind of cover

00:01:44.260 everything um i want to make sure people get they like you so much you get invited to all these

00:01:49.540 maga commemorations and and i just get feedback i just get feedback all the time and we have uh you

00:01:59.020 know every book signing i've had in the last month we've had about 400 people go it's been amazing

00:02:05.260 and a lot of members of the posse i've had a chance it was an honor to meet many people

00:02:09.860 um my books you can get in any bookstore they're best-selling books barnes and noble in particular

00:02:15.860 they usually put them up right up in the front the unvanquished being the civil war book the latest

00:02:20.740 the indispensables being the one before that on the american revolution and lexington and concord

00:02:27.000 what we're talking about tonight and reveres ride all of those things uh patrick k o'donnell.com

00:02:33.800 is my website and then at combat historian on x and getter is where you can go you you have you

00:02:41.740 spec you know you specialize in going back and doing archival work uh looking at all the writings

00:02:47.000 particularly as you can't do you you started in doing um oral histories of uh the greatest generation

00:02:53.580 because you had the idea hey if i don't do this if somebody doesn't do it systematically it's going

00:02:59.300 to be lost to to history your older uh books obviously the inability to interview you do

00:03:05.500 amazing archival work so talk to us why is this so important and we've made such a big deal about it

00:03:12.060 why the shot heard around the world tomorrow in lexington and concord and starts tonight

00:03:17.840 really with paul revere set the table for us what was going on and and why were these forces brought

00:03:23.900 together them are so explosive that really did change the direction not just of american history

00:03:29.500 but of world history this is our most important history steve this is the story about our founding

00:03:37.400 it's about who we are as americans it's a story about regular people um you know using their personal

00:03:46.040 agency to change the world the founding generation changes the world and it begins in many ways

00:03:53.820 the revolution begins in 1768 with the stamp act and you know fighting against the crown realizing

00:04:00.900 that there's dependency for the crown's goods they're constantly bombarding us at this time with uh you

00:04:08.920 know cheap imports they stand up against the stamp debt the stamp act the crown backs off but it's

00:04:15.140 really kind of one atrocity after another everything from impressment of sailors i mean for instance i wrote

00:04:21.560 a book called the indispensables on the marble headers these are fishermen and traders they go out with

00:04:26.380 their boats all of a sudden the crown pulls up with a navy ship and it's not a friendly meeting they're

00:04:32.800 there to impress people on board and it's a uh it's kidnapping for life with the royal navy uh there's those

00:04:40.580 incidents there's taxes there's a revolution that that is spawned in 1773 and 74 where new ideas are

00:04:51.580 formed about freedom and liberty and this is groundbreaking stuff steve that is the basis of

00:04:59.040 who we are as americans and so hang on but hang on hang on for a second hang on a second you got

00:05:04.940 in 1773 and 1774 in the preamble of this why do you say the new new ideas these are essentially

00:05:12.620 englishmen or they're governed even if people come over from other places they're governed as a colony

00:05:18.740 of the of the british crown and englishmen have certain rights that they have fought for and have

00:05:26.760 you know representation of parliament the crown is not it is a constitutional monarchy now

00:05:32.820 right now it's not a it's not like henry vIII they just do what they wanted um so what are the

00:05:38.660 ideas in 1773 and 1774 that start to come up it's the ideas of of individual freedom and liberty but also

00:05:47.180 that they were not being represented property properly in parliament they didn't have a say

00:05:52.520 even though they were being taxed but there's a lot of things that are going on uh where you know

00:05:59.020 they're they're being forced to house british soldiers for instance there's a judge issue and

00:06:05.460 this is a really interesting one they were being you know throughout the colonies for over 100 years or

00:06:11.440 more we were able to elect our own judges and put them in in place what was going on in 74

00:06:18.040 was the crown was installing their own judges and this is a major problem and then there's another

00:06:25.080 thing that you know that the the boston tea party takes place and what happens is it's collective

00:06:31.800 punishment for everyone that's in boston they shut down the port thousands are thrown out of work

00:06:37.820 uh they're not able to trade and uh you know this collectively royals everything and uh it's just one

00:06:46.140 step after another but the real trigger is on september 1st 1774 at a place called somerville

00:06:54.100 which is in cambridge they had a powder magazine and gage knew that if he was able to take the gunpowder

00:07:03.300 away from the americans that was thomas that was that was thomas gage uh the uh the british general right

00:07:08.900 that's exactly right and i think this is another thing britain the great britain basically has a

00:07:15.500 royal governor but the governors are overwhelmed so britain sends essentially an expeditionary force

00:07:20.380 because it's a colony they send an expeditionary force of british regulars and at the time the

00:07:26.800 british regulars is is a small army but a highly professional army not a militia right these are pretty

00:07:32.140 hardened guys eventually they'll be deployed into many places this is the army that that breaks uh napoleon

00:07:38.860 later right in 18 uh uh what in 1812 uh but this is a pretty tough lot of these are pretty hard

00:07:47.900 they come from ireland they come from northern ireland they come from scotland come from england

00:07:51.520 and just like the royal navy was the dregs of society but some of the best fighting men in the world

00:07:56.740 these are pretty hard folks right these are these are these are i mean wellington used to call

00:08:02.160 wellington called his army the scum of the earth right but some of the greatest fighters

00:08:06.300 these are really tough guys and experience in most cases they have at least 10 years of experience 0.79

00:08:12.540 on average uh that had been in combat so these guys know what they're doing they're well trained

00:08:18.080 they're very well disciplined engaged senses remember i talked about dependency dependency at this time was

00:08:25.800 gunpowder could fight all you know you could if you don't have gunpowder it doesn't matter how many

00:08:31.940 guns you have you're defenseless and they recognize this because what happened is after the french and

00:08:38.860 indian war the british deliberately took our gunpowder industry away but it's also market-driven forces

00:08:45.740 because it was cheaper to outsource it to india at the time so the the united states or i should say

00:08:53.820 the colonies had no organ organic production of powder but in the in the british went after it that was

00:08:59.720 the killing thing hang on hang on i want to make sure the audience understands this it's the reason the

00:09:05.480 second amendment was so important to people at that time let's go back to here they the brit the brits

00:09:12.220 were not were the empire they set up in the system well no they're but they're smart they look they're

00:09:19.280 building a global empire from an island right at the same time keeping europe at bay so you got to be 0.89

00:09:25.680 tough you got to be hard you got to think ahead and they realized that hey the colonies made up a bunch

00:09:30.760 of englishmen who were kind of surly right americans have always bitching about their rights hey i got my

00:09:36.800 rights as a free man they they understood they what they didn't want them to do is have rights tied with

00:09:43.020 weapons and gunpowder that was and we see that tomorrow play out so that's why gunpowder was so

00:09:49.200 important weapons are so important to go to an arsenal keep whatever you do keep these americans

00:09:54.580 away from firearms because this is a this is a group with a chip on their shoulder they've got an

00:10:00.500 attitude um and uh and and we don't like it we like we want order we don't want uh we don't want

00:10:07.180 them telling us what to do essentially that's why september your your point's brilliant the the

00:10:12.220 september 1st 17 it was a 70 75 no it's before this is 1774 yeah and then what you have is a series

00:10:20.640 of these surgical raids that take place there's another one that takes place at fort william and

00:10:26.460 where the first shots arguably of the revolutionary war are fired and a man is wounded a british provisional

00:10:33.680 troop is wounded but they they seize the the americans actually seize the gunpowder fort william and

00:10:39.520 which is in um new hampshire uh and then there's another uh raid at salem and it's it goes on and

00:10:47.280 on and on until lexington and concord and it's a traitor within the patriot ranks a guy by the name

00:10:54.520 of benjamin church who's one of the he's on the highest councils in the um in the patriot ranks they

00:11:00.280 have a series of a council of safety a council of supply and church is gage's best spy he tells

00:11:09.140 gage exactly where all the weapons there's several cannons that are being hidden there's musket balls

00:11:16.320 there's powder they're being stashed in concord and other farms nearby and gage decides to mount a raid

00:11:24.420 beginning on april 18th they sail out of fort william which is in boston harbor 750 men

00:11:31.660 under a guy by the name of smith and these are the elite troops within the british army they're royal

00:11:37.280 marines and light infantry and they're assembled on boats they sail in and they come in and then they

00:11:45.740 start to march um you know towards lexington and concord well hang on for a second let's go back to the

00:11:53.020 makeup uh in the structure of gage's expeditionary force that they essentially come to impose

00:12:00.040 essentially some form of martial law on the colonists in boston and boston was really where this

00:12:05.560 the revolutionary spirit you had hancock you had adams you had that that would be sam adams not john

00:12:12.000 adams you you had a uh a lot of people stirring the pot here right and engage his expeditionary force

00:12:17.940 give me the structure of that expeditionary force there's about 3 000 men that are in boston and then

00:12:23.700 there's another several a couple thousand in canada and in south carolina and most of these men are you

00:12:30.420 know regular very disciplined trained troops 10 15 years experience in many cases a lot of the troops

00:12:38.540 are the light infantry these are this is sort of an invention from the french and indian war where they

00:12:44.840 learn how to fight as uh in sort of a native american fashion where it's not necessarily linear

00:12:50.240 tactics on the european battlefield but they they they have these lighter troops that are able to

00:12:56.000 maneuver and and work quicker on the battlefield and it's this this is the force that is uh put together

00:13:03.640 for this raid um to the the british's disadvantage many of these men had never actually fought as an entire

00:13:12.540 unit together they took multiple companies from several regiments and put them together for this

00:13:20.120 this force that smith was leading to seize the uh the gunpowder cannon and others before we get to

00:13:27.640 before we get to the actual movement of the troops in the going what was it about paul revere and people

00:13:33.980 knew something it's not that they were on a hair trigger but this was all building up to something

00:13:39.880 right they understood that the brits that the british wanted to make sure that they they disarmed 0.86

00:13:45.840 the colonists they didn't want the colonists to have weapons and they didn't want them to have

00:13:49.420 gunpowder they knew that that would lead to uh a bigger insurrection correct so this was all out there you

00:13:57.740 had these spies you had people turning in colonists you had them turning in plans how does paul revere

00:14:02.900 how does the night before the eve why does it all come together on the 18th of april and then leading

00:14:08.680 into the confrontation we see on the next day paul revere is a key member of the sons of liberty

00:14:15.720 he's a key member of some of the councils that i mentioned he's one of the leading fellows but he's

00:14:20.640 also built sort of this alarm system uh you know one if by land to it by sea where the um how the british

00:14:28.280 are going to attack the supplies and uh there's this you know series of the the lantern in the in the in

00:14:35.320 the church tower uh and then he rides out you know beginning around 11 o'clock on the 18th and they start to

00:14:44.360 they start to to to um to move towards concord and it meanwhile the the head the leadership of the

00:14:52.940 patriots are all assembled that night they're meeting at the black force tavern in arlington

00:14:59.340 virginia arlington massachusetts i'm sorry uh and then also near near concord itself and it's revere that

00:15:08.600 uh that that basically alarms them and lets them know what that the british are coming

00:15:13.740 um tell me tell me about the sons of liberty what what is what is uh what is the sons of liberty uh

00:15:23.480 why is it such a controversial group why haven't the british uh what were the british trying to do

00:15:27.900 to infiltrate or to shut it down the sons of liberty are you know they are formed during the uh the years

00:15:35.120 of the stamp act in the late 18 17 60s and this is to to fight british taxation and this includes some of

00:15:45.440 the key members such as um samuel adams who's considered a real rabble rouser but he's a beacon

00:15:53.840 in many ways a real thought leader of the time there are others uh john adams um elbridge gary from the

00:16:02.240 the um the marble head uh regiment for instance future congressman and later vice president many

00:16:10.800 of these men are are sons of liberty this is kind of the core um group of resistance members if you

00:16:17.760 will it starts at the stamp act and it continues to to flourish and expand uh right before the

00:16:26.480 the beginning of the american revolutionary war and they set up in many ways these core members

00:16:34.080 of the sons of liberty will set up the shadow government of these different committees of

00:16:39.200 safety committees of correspondence submit committee of supplies uh where they they start to to prepare 0.51

00:16:48.560 in the event that the british you know attempt to disarm them and kill them

00:16:52.480 um how the committees of correspondence because we've often told the war room posse

00:17:00.240 that in particularly being force multipliers and information warfare you know frontline folks

00:17:05.360 that are sharing this information that you're you're analogous to the committees of correspondence

00:17:11.520 and the sons of liberty talk to me about the committees of correspondence and how they interact

00:17:15.920 with people like the uh the sons of liberty they form various um committees that meet these are individuals

00:17:26.080 that are trusted individuals but in most you know in most cases they are considered trusted individuals

00:17:33.680 but you have what i think most people don't realize is that not everybody was on board with the

00:17:40.880 american revolution at the time i mean the the typical analogy is that there was one third patriots one

00:17:48.160 third and decided and then one third that were loyalists it's hard to really break down those numbers

00:17:54.400 but what you have is an america the first american civil war that is raging at the time of 1774 and 1775

00:18:03.520 where the two camps are divided and uh military defeats as well as atrocities on the battlefield will shape

00:18:13.360 the ebb and flow of where those camps move and people move from one camp to another

00:18:19.680 and it's it's really quite a miracle that the american revolution succeeded and against the greatest empire

00:18:28.720 at the time and it's it's really a story about grit it's about a story about an idea the idea of america of

00:18:38.560 freedom and liberty which is stronger than anything that you can have really on the battlefield and it's

00:18:44.160 that idea that would persist and pervade for for for you know over eight years and then longer and then

00:18:52.560 change the entire world as a result so when you say the one-third one-third one-third and people

00:19:02.960 actually use the number three percent actually did any fighting but what was it in the in the lead up

00:19:10.240 because clearly two-thirds of the people are not with you and that's why can you say the worm all the

00:19:15.120 time hey if it starts out and the odds are long you'll change the odds if you're just determined

00:19:22.320 so essentially in in the in the in the nicest swath you can take it two-thirds of the people were not

00:19:27.840 with the patriots and and quite frankly they thought of the patriots of being radical and and and and

00:19:34.560 out of step and and dangerous because they were drawing america into a confrontation with the british

00:19:40.160 crown one-third of the people were tories they supported the british crown and didn't think anything

00:19:44.960 would didn't think the british crown was doing anything actually wrong in fact if they were doing

00:19:50.800 anything wrong it was causing the instigation of people like sam adams and john hancock and others

00:19:56.320 and sam adams and john hancock were kind of also people that are up against the monopolies that the

00:20:03.280 crown had given monopolistic power to and that would be the british east india company these guys i don't

00:20:07.920 want to call them smugglers but the whole confrontation on the tea party etc was a confrontation not so much

00:20:13.680 with the british crown or as much with the british east india company which had monopolistic powers for

00:20:19.040 trade in in the colonies but why was it in your thought that given all the intellectuals we had

00:20:24.960 given the committees and correspondence and enough people like the war room posse

00:20:28.640 still two-thirds of the people approximately were not convinced it was worth taking the fact it was

00:20:34.480 dangerous the people in the middle were just sitting there going hey we don't want any part of this we're

00:20:39.680 going to see which side wins but the tories there were one-third that were pretty adamantly opposed to

00:20:44.160 this uh patrick o'donnell yeah these loyalists were very determined and that's that is a you know this

00:20:52.000 is not the story of the oil paintings that we uh you know we all see there's a much richer deeper

00:21:00.800 more nuanced story um of the the you know the various it's a very vicious and violent war

00:21:09.120 as it unfolds but what you see is just a determination um of a small group of people in many cases like you

00:21:17.760 said um three percent probably more than that but not too many more would actually do the the actual

00:21:25.680 fighting and be around they were just persistent their grit um and then it was a situation where

00:21:33.920 people saw their lives really in danger and at risk and they saw what the crown had done to other

00:21:40.320 you know any other any other insurgency or force the crown went against it it always it destroyed or

00:21:49.120 it tamped down it it was always victorious

00:21:54.720 um paul revere how does he get tipped off how does tonight is the night you know the midnight ride

00:22:00.080 of paul revere made famous by the the poem that every american school kid at one point in time had to

00:22:04.960 know uh how does he flow into this as sons of liberty what is he going to be a uh is he a spy

00:22:10.880 is he somebody that's part of the militia's intelligence a group why does he come in and

00:22:17.280 why is his ride that triggers everything so important he has a number of people that he are

00:22:22.800 that are informants and inform him and and he is aware that smith's force is assembling and he sets

00:22:31.120 about to alarm the entire countryside they have a an alarm system that's already set up you know the

00:22:37.200 lanterns in the in the uh church tower and then pretty much as soon as he rides out he alarms every

00:22:44.560 house that he encounters and he tells it basically tells everyone to start ringing the town bell church

00:22:52.240 bells anything to let people know that the regulars are on the move and they he does an amazing job

00:22:59.520 but as he's riding gage wisely puts out um numerous cavalry patrols to try to to round up men like paul

00:23:09.280 revere and he and another guy by the name of dawes and prescott later joins them they're rounded up

00:23:15.840 the british actually um these cavalry patrols they run into them and and revere is captured um initially

00:23:24.000 and the the you know the british officer uh comes up to him and says you know sir may i have your

00:23:33.760 your name i'm craving your name and he and revere and revere just says my name is paul revere just like

00:23:41.600 that and they like the officer's jaw literally drops because this is the man that he's hunting

00:23:47.520 and revere um they put a gun to his head and he says there's no need for that i will just tell you

00:23:55.200 the truth and he tells them more details about the expedition and then these men actually know because

00:24:03.040 they they their cover story is they're just rounding up british deserters and he says to them look within a

00:24:10.320 matter of minutes you will be surrounded by thousands of my uh fellow countrymen and your

00:24:17.280 lives will be the ones that are in great danger and you know this goes on for you know several minutes

00:24:23.440 he tries to tie them up because he knows that john hancock and other and joseph warren other members of the

00:24:29.520 patriot leadership are not far down the road and he wants to do everything he can to delay these men

00:24:35.280 and the the column from reaching them so they engage in some conversation but shots ring out

00:24:43.280 and uh this british cavalry this decides to this basically ditch their prisoners they take their

00:24:50.080 mounts and then they they make them walk on foot and uh revere and two of the other men make their way

00:24:57.200 through a swamp through a sort of a uh a shortcut and they get to to to hancock and joseph warren

00:25:05.120 before the main column is arriving joseph warren that's a famous name why don't we hang on uh right

00:25:12.160 there we're going to ask uh patrick k o'donnell the question he's going to answer the other side

00:25:18.080 and we're going to talk about the day of lexington concord but what what is the uh what was the signal

00:25:24.240 one if by land two if by sea we're gonna be back in a moment with patrick k o'donnell to get an

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00:31:15.600 war room here's your host stephen k man

00:31:22.640 okay patrick k o'donnell one if by land two if by sea what's my answer

00:31:26.640 they come by sea and they start that was the warning that was the warning you're going to have

00:31:35.680 lights up in the church tower that it'd be one light if they were coming by sea and two if they

00:31:40.400 were coming by land why would they come by sea they were right there in boston i thought

00:31:43.920 they they wanted to to obtain a a slight element of surprise by coming by sea they thought they could

00:31:52.000 kind of distract things and then um also cut off a few a little bit of their uh their march too

00:31:59.440 they make it a little bit shorter so they wouldn't have to go right through uh the heart of of boston

00:32:05.760 they come up they actually landed at this loyalist farm um outside of cambridge and then they start to

00:32:12.880 march and they're marching first they march through arlington and then they march towards lexington

00:32:20.080 and green and it's at 2 a.m that john parker and about 70 of his militia are out at lexington green

00:32:29.680 because they hear paul revere's alarm bells so paul revere's paul revere starts before midnight

00:32:38.160 right by 2 a.m they've already got the by 2 a.m the the the colonists already know something they're

00:32:44.640 coming so they muster at lexington they muster at lexington common at 2 a.m wow they do and this is

00:32:52.000 important because it's the it's it's it's sort of the the the green is near the crucial crossroads

00:32:58.480 which is on the way towards concord they muster there and it's here that they meet you know this

00:33:06.560 this long kind of centipede of scarlet so hang on just hundreds for the audience to understand they're

00:33:13.280 going they're going to the armory at concord lexington just has to be on the route to go there correct

00:33:19.440 it's correct it's not even an armory steve this is just a bunch of houses farms that have

00:33:26.480 cached uh supplies military supplies of gunpowder many of the it's the marble headers the indispensables

00:33:35.520 that have that have that have that have obtained it from portugal and spain there are several actual

00:33:42.800 cannons uh trunnions with for the canyons and then there's uh muskets and musket balls tens of

00:33:51.200 thousands of them engages men are there to surgically remove them they're not there to plunder anybody's

00:33:58.640 houses or anything else at least that's in the orders doesn't work out that way they're just

00:34:04.320 surgically remove the supplies and get out but what happens is the the countryside is alarmed they then run

00:34:11.600 into parker's men and they're told to disperse uh parker says hang on hold hang on they get to

00:34:22.240 parker and his men rally at 2 a.m by dawn the british and this is a 3 000 man expeditionary force

00:34:30.960 british regulars correct this is a force of 750 british regulars specifically the light infantry

00:34:39.520 yep and the royal marines this is a royal marines force pick force and and pretty tough hombres they

00:34:48.480 get to what around five six and what time they actually arrive at lexington at the commons where

00:34:55.360 parker's sometime around two to three a.m that they arrive and then they are told to disperse

00:35:02.320 and uh you know parker says his famous words stand your ground um you know the men some of the men are

00:35:10.720 you know questioning there's only 70 of us and there's this long column of 750 british regulars a

00:35:18.320 number of words are exchanged he tells his men to not fire unless fired upon and then he says the

00:35:26.640 uh the famous words but if if you want a war let it begin here and then what happens is a shot rings

00:35:36.160 out and we don't know to this day who fired the first shot and at that point the british regulars

00:35:43.360 begin to fire and start to massacre many of uh parker's men they fire back but if parker's

00:35:50.480 why don't we get the brood of the front of it why don't we know why don't we know uh who actually

00:35:58.080 fired the first shot why is it still why is it still a debate in history of who actually fired the

00:36:04.160 first one because you've got just hundreds of people and individuals and they they still don't

00:36:11.680 know exactly who fired that first shot isn't it clearly isn't it patrick you've patrick you've

00:36:17.520 gone to the archives isn't it pretty clear it's one of the militia guys they're they're a little

00:36:22.240 nervous you got british regulars they're telling you to get the hell out of the way disperse

00:36:27.360 parker and a handful of these guys don't do it some column some guys do disperse they stand right

00:36:32.560 there somebody's itchy i'm not willing to say that because here's why steve because literally within

00:36:40.560 hours from this there's another engagement at concord bridge where the exact same scenario i

00:36:47.920 know takes place but hang on hang on they're british regulars fire don't get ahead of i'm

00:36:52.880 don't get ahead of the wagon train here i'm gonna get to concord in a second

00:36:56.640 was an order given who is the field officer in charge of the 750 they are adamant that they gave

00:37:03.360 no order to fire smith that smith was adamant because they had a board of inquiry about this

00:37:08.880 he was adamant he never gave an order to fire correct correct but what happens is british

00:37:15.360 regular are british regulars in the business of firing unless they get a direct order because they

00:37:20.240 got a whole thing that they line up boom it's just like anybody else they can you can when you got your

00:37:25.200 hands near the trigger it's possible so you don't know but i mean it's it's quite possible my money's

00:37:31.840 my money's on a my money's on a column i'll get to this this is where the i may be going down but

00:37:38.640 i'm taking one of these guys out with me do what the founders knew the information war and i'll get

00:37:46.640 to the narrative in a bit okay go so so so what happens after what happens after the shoot so it's a

00:37:53.920 melee then what happens and how do we get to concord then it's open season on the colonists

00:37:58.960 and many of uh parker's men are are either mortally wounded or killed the british actually

00:38:05.920 run bayonets through multiple men um smith and pickhorn uh they he starts to wave his sword in

00:38:14.560 the air to cease fire he has to literally he loses control of his men steve that's a very important

00:38:21.200 point you you were just making the point of how disciplined these british regulars were he lost

00:38:27.360 control of them there that night and these men started to to to basically fire at will

00:38:34.560 and they were bayoneting uh they have to literally go into the melee order everybody to cease

00:38:40.400 fire what happens then is through some of the remaining americans then disperse into the hills

00:38:46.640 and the and smith then continues his original mission which is destroy the supplies at concord but

00:38:55.520 his officers around him many seasoned officers say look it's madness to continue the americans are

00:39:03.360 alerted the entire countryside they saw what happened during the somerville powder alarm literally 10 000

00:39:10.480 people descended upon boston common they're now alarmed for their they're they're worried about

00:39:17.040 their lives but smith says i have my orders and he continues to towards concord so they marched

00:39:24.160 toward concord with his other officers saying hey we're going to get chewed up here because this is

00:39:29.360 big time they didn't realize the level of chew so the ward's out now and this is where the

00:39:35.920 militia are coming walk and get they get to con they come up on concord bridge they have to cross

00:39:41.440 concord bridge to get to the farmhouses where the arsenals are correct or the weapons correct that's

00:39:46.480 where the weapons are stored yeah what happens next is is they come upon the place that they feel that

00:39:52.560 most of the weapons are stored which is the tavern in concord smith and several of his officers then

00:39:59.200 storm the tavern the doors lock they break it down storm in and then they put a pistol to the owner

00:40:06.240 and tell him and ask him where are the cannons hidden and the guy initially will refuses to talk

00:40:13.200 and he says i'll blow your brains out if i if you don't talk they then he then the tavern owner then 0.91

00:40:18.880 leads them to four buried cannons they're 24 pounders they unearth them and then they spike the guns and 0.90

00:40:26.080 then they start to search the town for any other weapons and supplies and what happens is they start to

00:40:32.320 build a bonfire in the middle of the town to start burning all this stuff what happens next it's kind

00:40:37.520 of interesting the the fire catches on a a townhouse nearby and a bizarre scene takes place the british

00:40:47.040 soldiers and the americans that are in in concord itself literally form a bucket brigade and try to put

00:40:52.960 out the fire but meanwhile parker's men and others are surrounding the town near in the nearby hills

00:41:00.560 and see that they they believe the town is being burned to the ground so they then mass near the

00:41:07.280 bridge and demand um you know the fire be put out and everything else is they they don't know really

00:41:15.200 what's going on but at this time british soldiers are then taking whatever they can find which is not

00:41:20.320 much because revere and other patriot leaders had warned them days earlier that these supplies might

00:41:27.440 be raided so they've moved a lot of this stuff into the surrounding fields they buried it i mean there's

00:41:34.240 one great story where the guy that's the the leader uh barrett who's a leader near concord bridge his his

00:41:42.080 farm is two miles away from concord town center his farm is raided but he uh days before with hundreds

00:41:51.200 of patriots had literally cleaned out the entire area and then the morning before that they literally

00:41:56.720 clouded the field and they were putting muskets down as they were you know as they created a a furrow

00:42:03.280 to to cover things and they found you know very little uh supplies but as this is going on the

00:42:10.720 militia uh mass at the bridge along with the regulars and it's here that the famous shot round heard

00:42:18.400 around the world takes place the british tell the militia to disperse um barrett basically says

00:42:25.120 to stand your ground and what happens next is that the british regulars fire the first shots two shots

00:42:32.480 are fired um by british regulars they open fire and what happens is the americans stand their ground

00:42:41.360 and what's it's really remarkable is that these seasoned elite troops begin to break and they

00:42:48.160 start to fall back from the bridge i want to repeat that this was so shocking it was shocking in

00:42:54.960 the field reports they sent later of course they get slaughtered on the way back but right there in

00:43:00.080 front of one of the toughest armies in europe the americans who are basically a group of farmers and

00:43:05.760 mechanics refuse to break at concord bridge right and actually break the british ranks

00:43:12.400 they do they start to waver smith then realizes uh what happens is that they they break and then

00:43:19.600 there's a dispersion from both sides uh that takes place and smith then resumes his march back to boston

00:43:28.400 they are really at this point running and marching for their lives because they realize the entire

00:43:34.080 countryside is alarmed um and and there are there are thousands of militiamen in the surrounding hills

00:43:43.280 and they are they're flanking the road as the british march and they they encounter at one of the angles

00:43:51.680 they encounter john parker it's called parker's revenge uh at one of the hills they uh the british

00:43:58.240 light infantry a storm the hill they disperse the men only to realize that there's another hill filled

00:44:04.800 with hundreds of americans and then they just continue this long march and bloody march down

00:44:11.440 from from the foot hang on from the foot of concord bridge back to safety back to cambridge

00:44:18.160 which is boston boston boston back to boston is how many miles roughly uh we're talking uh uh about

00:44:28.560 15 12 miles or so it's a long road you've got militia you've got militia behind every rock and tree

00:44:34.880 they've got to go back this elite force of 750 that goes out basically at midnight to get to the arsenal

00:44:41.520 or at concord or the houses at concord they have the weapons 750 they're under complete onslaught for

00:44:47.600 hours in the withdrawal and folks if you want to think about it this is a 250 years ago this is

00:44:54.480 black hawk down you're surrounded by people who don't want you to be there right there was mogadishu

00:45:01.680 right in the i guess the 1990s here it's lexington and concord uh in outside of boston but how many

00:45:08.960 casualties do they take of that elite force of 750 by the time they actually get back to boston

00:45:14.160 they take uh scores of casualty killed and wounded and uh you know we also sustain a number of

00:45:22.080 casualties it's one of my family members amos mills who's actually killed on on near the road

00:45:28.640 the uh as the british continue to push forward though just literally militia just surround you know

00:45:35.120 swarms in from all sides the light infantry kind of does flanking maneuvers where they charge out

00:45:43.280 and and then you know stabilize things as the the main line continues to move forward and they did a

00:45:48.560 you know really a remarkable job trying to get out making their way out um it's near arlington that

00:45:56.720 um they have some of the toughest fighting in there's a number of of homes that are still there

00:46:05.120 the russell house for instance was a saw a slaughterhouse they uh there were bodies stacked

00:46:12.000 up inside and there was literally you know an inch of blood on the floor uh from american bodies as well

00:46:17.760 as some of the british troops that went in there but as the british are are pulling you know they're

00:46:22.880 they're they're withdrawing towards boston they start to plunder all the houses that they encounter

00:46:29.040 even you know churches they going against gage's direct orders they're they're stealing everything

00:46:35.920 pretty much in sight uh and then they're they're they're bayoneting people it's really vicious

00:46:41.200 combat on both sides there's a great story about samuel whitmore who's this 78 year old man that

00:46:47.840 you know he will not yield his house and uh he has a sword and a pistol in hand and uh you know kills

00:46:56.240 a couple british regulars the meantime is bayoneted multiple times and shot somehow survives to the

00:47:02.720 ripe old age of 96. wow um yeah no he's a hero eric prince talked about that the other day uh and by the

00:47:11.200 way i think he was the same age as trump is today when he grabbed those two pistols from the french and

00:47:16.560 indian war uh before i let you go patrick k o'donnell i want to thank you so much in this

00:47:21.520 um tom and thomas gage in the british if they and these are some of the toughest guys in the world

00:47:29.120 they knew when uh the sun set that night that they had a fight on their hands everything that led up to

00:47:35.600 this they realized then that was a major military uh encounter in the in the in the americans were

00:47:42.080 going to give as good as they got uh folks that is a year uh before the um uh over a year before

00:47:50.400 um the expeditionary force came to new york city right after the fourth of july as patrick and i

00:47:56.160 always talk about that amazing the amazing battle series of battles there o'donnell i need people to

00:48:02.560 know where to go to get all your writings you will patrick k o'donnell puts you in the moment at the

00:48:08.560 time this is not like written hundreds of years later he puts you in the eyes of the combatants

00:48:14.720 at the time that's always such a great combat historian whether it's korea whether it's the

00:48:19.680 iraq war but particularly these books you've done of the revolution you can't put down so and and

00:48:24.000 you're unvanquished on the civil war coming from god's country of the commonwealth of virginia can't

00:48:29.040 be better um and plus it's got my uh it's got uh what fremont it's got one most prominent women 1.00

00:48:36.160 in american history is one of the stars fremont's wife um mrs fremont i love her she was so in

00:48:44.080 lincoln's face he said he put her on the train back to missouri's i don't want to see that one

00:48:48.320 again um where do people go to get your writing sir to get the unvanquished or any or the

00:48:54.400 indispensables which this this story is in or the washington's immortals go to barnes and noble or

00:49:00.720 amazon my website is patrick o'donnell.com email me or uh at combat historian on getter as well as uh

00:49:12.160 uh x is where you can find me and i've got a lot of book signings and things like that you can come

00:49:17.440 visit me i love meeting everybody that's part of the posse so you know great getting to know

00:49:22.240 everybody over the last uh 12 or 13 years and the posse turns out big for your book signs three

00:49:28.480 and 400 people uh patrick o'donnell we love you brother the whole audience loves you love you too

00:49:32.880 thank you so much for being on here great job kicking off kicking off it's an honor thank you

00:49:37.600 always an honor to have you on here paul revere's ride tonight tomorrow for two hours we're going to be

00:49:44.560 at lexington we're going to take lexington and concord of 250 and tie it to today and why you're the

00:49:50.720 equivalent of the sons of liberty and how you from every patriot's grave back to 1775 you're absolutely

00:49:57.680 connected okay we're going to leave you with something very special we used to play this a

00:50:01.120 couple of years ago during the beginning of the uh search of the uh stolen election of 2020 remember

00:50:06.640 that in those dark days of 2021 here we have a poem written by emerson it was commemorated they were

00:50:14.080 putting a stone at concord bridge in uh memorial memory of uh of in the first 100th anniversary uh

00:50:23.520 we're going to take a uh we'll see you tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock a.m we're going to be live we're

00:50:27.120 going to leave you now with the concord hymn this is the uh the poem set to music

00:50:41.520 you

00:50:42.560 that something

00:50:53.600 is

00:51:01.840 you

00:51:05.020 And time the ruined bridge has swept down the dark stream with seaward breeze.

00:51:22.120 On this green bank, by this soft stream, we set today a golden stone that memory may their deep redeem.

00:51:42.060 When, like our sires, our songs are gone, spirit that make those heroes dare to die and keep their children free.

00:52:04.140 In time and nature, gently spare the shaft we raise to them.

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Bannon's War Room - April 18, 2025

WarRoom Battleground EP 750： 250th Anniversary Of The Battle Of Lexington And Concord

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